Greg In The Desert

sigh… The dam election is finally over. I had to put a sign on the door last night, because of the consistent barrage of door-to-door vote-getter-outers coming by, that said “I Already Voted”. Now that it is finally over I have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

Obviously the idea of Bush being in office another 4 years has some bad consequences. I always felt that the mixing of politics and religion has some bad effects, it seemed to help Bush with his win this time but I feel many of those that voted, voted for only for the god fearing reason and are missing the real issues. Is there a draft in the future? What other countries are we going to attack in the middle east? How roughly half, or a little more than half, of the voters think he is better is beyond me. This isn’t the first time it’s happened, we were sorry then too.

Kerrys concession is pretty classy in my opinion. He saved the country weeks maybe months of more grueling post election burn by ending it today. It doesn’t seem likely that it would have helped him anyway.

Nationwide I’m pretty stunned by the 11 states that passed discriminatory anti gay marriage constitutional amendments. This disgusts me more than the Bush winning reelection.

Here in New Mexico the difference between Bush and Kerry was about 1% and there is still over 10,000 ballots to be counted. However our measly 5 electoral votes aren’t going to do much for Kerry. Heather Wilson was reelected by about 10% margin, I do not support her. The charter that would merge the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County was defeated, I voted against it. The street bond was approved with 61% in favor of. This street bond will not only fix the streets in Albuquerque but gives a lot of money to building the Paseo Del Norte extension into the Petroglyphs. Apparently the lure of fixing roads was enough to overlook the Paseo issue, which has failed to receive enough posts in years past.